%0 Journal Article
%T Women Making Choices
%J Indian journal of gender studies
%D 2007
%A Goyal, Ashima
%V 14
%N 3
%P 409-437
%X Amartya Sen's capability approach is very useful to analyse how choices affect the potential of women, once the position that women lack self-awareness when they make their choices is dropped. Women's agency is underestimated. Women's 'otherregarding choices' are not irrational because altruism has not only intrinsic, but also instrumental value as a source of social capital; it may even increase some types of freedom. The mask of conformity women wear in preferring less to more can be misinterpreted as a lack of awareness. The rapidity with which even poor women make use of opportunities that suit their other-regarding choices and the special modes of functioning they have developed as a result prove that the mask of women's conformity is a shallow one.<p />
%G 
%I SAGE Publishing
%@ 0971-5215
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097152150701400303